(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Police Department, Posted on Facebook on March 20th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A Texas man has been charged after an abandoned dog was found at the Pittsburgh International Airport. According to Allegheny County Police, around 5 p.m. on Friday, county officers were alerted to the dog, which was running loose near the curb at departures. They were able to locate and secure the dog with the help of some bystanders. The dog was a Labrador puppy and it is now in foster care. As officers began investigating, they spoke with forty-two-year-old Omar Perez of Texas and he told them he saw an Uber driver abandon the dog. However, they later learned that Perez had abandoned the dog when he learned he would not be able to fly with it. Perez is now being charged with animal cruelty and animal abandonment.